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Donor
Recognition
This project is made possible through the generous donations of
money,
time and materials from the following people. If you would like more
information about supporting this work, please
click here for more information. We
would like to thank all these people for their generous support!
Materials
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Mark Futterman - To date, (03/18/08) Mark made the largest
contribution to the content of the library in the form of 33 bankers
boxes of rare and interesting book titles. It is an amazing
contribution and we feel a profound responsibility to be proper
stewards of his life's work. Read more about the collection by
clicking here.
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Jane
Murphy has donated a collection of old USDA agriculture bulletins
from the 1920s and 1930s. Her connection to farming goes back
several generations and her father sold seed corn back in the 1950s.
Jane sells interesting items on eBay under the name
WinterGal28.
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David
Pendergrass donated an HP ScanJet scanner. A very critical
part of getting the public domain hardcopies of our library converted. (Refer to
David's
biographical information below)
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Julie
Phroper donated a collection of nursery business ephemera
with examples from the 1940s into the 1960s. Companies
represented include Henry Field, Wagoner, Benton County Nurseries,
Ozark Nurseries, East's, The Lehman Gardens, Fairbury, Yager, Farmer
Seed & Nursery, Swedburg, Columbia & Okanogan, J. E. Miller,
Musser Forests, Asgrow, Inter-State, Willis, Shumway, and more. Julie
sells various items on eBay under the name
catfurtomakekittybritches.
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Ted
Sobel has donated several early 20th century agricultural
textbooks and other agricultural literature. Ted retired from Cornell
University working his career in Agricultural Engineering. He operates
THE COUNTRY STORE which includes The White Church Cabin in
Brooktondale, New York, where their motto is "Items
of Old-Fashioned Practical Value" and sells on eBay as
wc3s.
Additionally he started an organization called Babbage's Basement
which works to recycle computers and electronics, keeping them out of
landfills and in the hands of folks who could not otherwise afford the
technology. He has retired from Babbages to operate The Store, but
Babbages still lives on. You can read more about this work at
http://www.babbagesbasement.com and
http://homepage.mac.com/tedsobel.
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FasterBooks.net
- They specialize in hard to find, out of print, used, and rare books.
Sold us a several of the books in the "Principal American Varieties"
series at a discount.
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Barbara Barth donated a bunch of lithographed seed catalog
covers and pages that she had acquired. Barbara sells on eBay as
blynne. Be sure to check out her auctions from time to time.
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Wayne
Pearson of California who donated several
old seed catalogs in
memory of his Aunt Emmy (Pearson) Roebeck. Emmy had save
these catalogs from the 1930s and early 1940s and Wayne thankfully
saved them from being discarded, located us and donated them to the
collection.
Monetary Donations
(Click link for report)
Time
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Mike
Dunton - Mike's life revolves around the marriage of family,
history, research, gardening, and of course, seeds. He operates
the
Victory Seed Company and donates his time to developing and
maintaining this web resource. You can learn more about Mike on the
Victory Seed Company site and elsewhere on the web.
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Kurt Harlan of
Lasting Impressions Networks donated his talents to help
us with the initial setup of our Linux server and get Mike Dunton
motivated to learn Linux and Apache. Kurt provides great support
for both home users and business clients. Contact him at the
link above or by calling (503) 730-2802.
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Craig
LeHoullier - Dr. LeHoullier, a chemist by training and profession,
developed an interest in gardening at a young age while spending time
in his grandfather's garden. His interest in gardening coupled
with his scientific nature led him to work evaluating hybrid
performance to that of heirlooms. He eventually focused almost
exclusively on researching and evaluating family and commercially
released historical varieties. Probably his most well known
introduction is the tomato variety, 'Cherokee Purple'. Along
with his contributions of catalog images to this site, Craig has
supplied mother stock seed to the
Victory Seed Company for many of the
Livingston tomatoes as well as numerous other old varieties.
Several of his own stabilized tomato crosses were introduced
commercially by Victory Seeds as well.
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Melanie
Inangelo - Melanie is involved with heirloom seeds and is a SSE
member from Maine. She also collects old seed catalogs and other
horticulture reference books.
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David
Pendergrass - David farms land that has been in his family for
many generations in Middle Tennessee. He is deeply
interested in historical agriculture and collects old tools, catalogs and
publications to aide in his hands-on research. David also produces many
interesting seed varieties for the
Victory Seed Company.
Several of these varieties are heirlooms from his family and others
are old commercially released varieties that although once popular,
have become commercially rare. He also sells seed to market
growers, small farmers and community supported agriculture (CSA)
operations through his company,
New Hope Seeds.
Major
Funding and Support For
This Project Provided By:
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The Victory Seed Company
works to keep family heirlooms and interesting commercially
released seed varieties available to home gardeners. The
Victory Seed Company provides the office space, internet connection, electricity, and the manpower to
maintain the web site and keep it running.
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